Scene:
Peter the Great
Year: 2006
Artist: Belov
School: Fedoskino
Size: 5.50 x 4.25 x 0.90 in
Price: $580.00
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This
lacquer box depicts the powerful Russian
tzar who was born in 1672 and died in
1725.
"Peter was
a grandson of Tzar Michael Romanov.
In 1682, at the age of 10, Peter was
proclaimed Tzar, but he had to rule
together with his brother Ivan under the
patronage of his sister Sofia. In
1689, after the failure of a coup d'etat,
Sofia was overthrown and exiled to a
convent. After tzar Ivan's death,
Peter remained monarch and engineered a
series of reforms that were to put
Russia among the major European powers.
One of the Peter's main goals was to
regain access to the Baltic Sea and
Baltic trade. In 1700 he started
the Northern War with Sweden, which
lasted for 21 years. In the course
of the war, Saint Petersburg was found
in the Neva River delta. At the
end of the war Russia was victorious and
conquered the vast lands on the Baltic
coast. In 1712 Peter the Great
moved the Russian capital to St.
Petersburg and continued paying special
attention to the swift construction of
the city - his European "paradise".
When the Northern War ended in 1721,
Russia was declared an Empire and Peter
the Great proclaimed himself its
Emperor".
(web site: citivision2000.com/history of
St.Petersburg) |
